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Documentary journey into the "mind, body and soul of the teen movie" - a look at cinema as seen through...
Documentary journey into the "mind, body and soul of the teen movie" - a look at cinema as seen through the eyes of over 200 coming-of-agers made between Clueless (1995) and Mean Girls (2004). This is the debut from filmmaker Charlie Lyne, writer of the excellent Ultra Culture blog.
"Part adolescent fever dream, part roving visual essay, the film puts Hollywood's high school under the microscope on a quest to lay bare the genre's beating heart. Is The Craft the ultimate teenage survival guide? Can the little-seen Devon Sawa vehicle Idle Hands shine a light on the horrors of pubescence? And what's really going on beneath the skin of Eurotrip?" (Hawaii International Film Festival)
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"Lyne knows and loves his source material -- despite, if not because of its flaws. His passion for the genre is evident and his theories are presented with a rigour that pays the films the respect he feels they deserve."
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The Guardian
The Guardian"Lyne has produced a prodigious piece of criticism with Beyond Clueless, a confident crowdfunded archive-essay film."
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Sight & Sound
Sight & SoundBeyond Clueless | Details
- Rating
- M,
- Runtime
- 89
- Genre
- Documentary
- Country of origin
- UK
